Ask HN: How Do AI Researchers Convince Themselves AI Is Not Terrible?

Summary

A Hacker News post asks AI researchers how they convince themselves that artificial intelligence is not harmful to humanity. The author compares AI development with the creation of nuclear weapons in the 1940s and questions the argument that research should continue because someone else would do it otherwise. A commenter identifying as a researcher responds with an exaggerated, darkly humorous sequence that ends in panic about AI after consulting social media. The thread therefore presents skepticism and satire rather than evidence-based analysis or a concrete policy proposal.